The Collini case
By: Ferdinand von Schirach ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Contributors: Bell, Anthea, translator
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780143125648; 9780718159214
Subjects: Murder; Trials (Murder); Luxushotel; Fiction; Investigation; Pflichtverteidiger; Secrecy; Mord; Italienischer Einwanderer
Work titles: Fall Collini
Description: A personal connection to the murder case of retiree Fabrizio Collini and a prominent industrialist present a dilemma to new lawyer Caspar Leinen.
Notes: Translation of: Der fall Collini.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: For thirty-four years Fabrizio Collini has worked diligently for Mercedes Benz. He is a quiet and respectable person until the day he visits one of Berlin's most luxurious hotels and kills an innocent man. Young attorney Caspar Leinen takes the case. Getting Collini a not-guilty verdict would make his name. But too late he discovers that Collini's victim; title: an industrialist of some renown; title: is known to him. Now Leinen is caught in a professional and personal dilemma. Collini admits the murder but won't say why he did it, forcing Leinen to defend a man who won't put up a defence. And worse, a close friend and relation of the victim insists that he give up the case. His reputation, his career and this friendship are all at risk. Then he makes a discovery that goes way beyond his own petty concerns and exposes a terrible and deadly truth at the heart of German justice...